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A DOUCAI 'LOTUS' VASE, HU
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The flared sides decorated with enamels of yellow, green and iron-red tones to depict four bats, each in flight above a large lotus bloom and surrounded by leafy scrolls growing smaller lotus flowers to the sides, the waisted cylindrical neck decorated in registers separated by raised bow-strings, comprising bands of ruyi-heads, bajixiang amidst lotus scrolls, stylised Shou roundels, and further bats in flight, applied on either side of the neck with a pair of iron-red kui-dragon handles, the underside of the everted mouth rim decorated with a band of breaking waves above overlapping plantain leaves in underglaze-blue, the base bearing an apocryphal Qianlong six-character seal mark
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) high
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The flared sides decorated with enamels of yellow, green and iron-red tones to depict four bats, each in flight above a large lotus bloom and surrounded by leafy scrolls growing smaller lotus flowers to the sides, the waisted cylindrical neck decorated in registers separated by raised bow-strings, comprising bands of ruyi-heads, bajixiang amidst lotus scrolls, stylised Shou roundels, and further bats in flight, applied on either side of the neck with a pair of iron-red kui-dragon handles, the underside of the everted mouth rim decorated with a band of breaking waves above overlapping plantain leaves in underglaze-blue, the base bearing an apocryphal Qianlong six-character seal mark
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) high